Man charged with child endangerment after police find dirty apartment

Midland Reporter-Telegram

Published 5:30 pm, Monday, October 27, 2014

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Eric Dewane Wallace, 20, of Midland was arrested Oct. 26 on a state jail felony charge of abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence.Wallace was arrested after a child climbed out of the window of a very dirty apartment. The apartment had not been cleaned in some time and there were dirty diapers and drug paraphernalia found inside the home, according to Reporter-Telegram records.If convicted, Wallace faces up to two years in prison. less

Eric Dewane Wallace, 20, of Midland was arrested Oct. 26 on a state jail felony charge of abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence.Wallace was arrested after a child climbed out of the window ... more

Man charged with child endangerment after police find dirty apartment

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A 20-year-old Midland man was arrested Sunday after a child covered in “chocolate sauce” climbed out of a window of a dirty apartment unit, according to court documents.

Eric Dewane Wallace was being held Monday on a $30,000 bond for a state jail felony charge of abandoning or endangering a child with criminal negligence.

A family was outside of its residence having a barbecue when members heard the sound of a child crying in the backyard portion of a next-door apartment in the 2600 block of North “A” Street.

The child had climbed out of a window to get outside the apartment and was covered in a “chocolate sauce,” according to the arrest affidavit.

Once police responded to the scene, they contacted that apartment’s occupant, Wallace, along with another man at the residence. Both men appeared intoxicated when the officers contacted them.

The officers searched the apartment and saw that it was a mess inside, with toys, shoes, food, used diapers and trash scattered throughout various parts of the apartment. There was a bottle of the “chocolate sauce” and a cup sitting in a corner of the stairs inside the residence, and officers found a used marijuana cigarette on a mirror.

There was also a bag of shredded cheese strewn across the floor of one room. Each room looked “unkempt” and appeared unsafe for a child to live in, the affidavit states.

The child’s exact age was not included in the affidavit, but he was born in 2012. His whereabouts following Wallace’s arrest were not included in the document.